[Discussion] Kosmopolit Iskenderiye

[Gonul]

Asagidaki programi yollayan Filiz Yenisehirlioglu'na te=FEekk=FCr ederim.=
,
(Bir hafta gecikmeyle g=F6nderdigim i=E7in de =F6z=FCr dilerim.)

Iskenderiye ile akademik olarak ilgilenenlere ve (benim gibi) Misir'da
akrabasi olanlara...

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From: <schad@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
To: <H-LEVANT@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:29 AM
Subject: Cosmopolitan Alexandria - A Symposium [D. Starr]


> From: Deborah Starr <das86@cornell.edu>
>
> Cosmopolitan Alexandria
> A Symposium
> Cornell University
> A.D. White House
> Guerlac Room
>
> Sunday, October 20, 1:00-5:00
> Monday, October 21, 9:00-5:00
>
> Schedule
> SUNDAY, October 20
>
> 1:00-1:15
> Welcome and Opening Remarks
> Jonathan Culler, Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
>
> 1:15-2:00
> Khaled Fahmy, New York University
> "To Cavafy with Love and Squalor: Some Critical Notes on the History
and
> Historiography of Modern Alexandria"
> Moderator: Shawkat Toorawa, Cornell University
>
> 2:00-2:45
> Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago
> "Fatimid Alexandria as a Major Entrep=F4t in the East-West Exchange of
Islamic
> Scholarship"
> Moderator: Shawkat Toorawa, Cornell University
>
> 2:45-3:00       Coffee Break
>
> 3:00-3:45
> Niall Christie, University of British Columbia and Langara College
> "Cosmopolitan Trade Center or Bone of Contention? Alexandria and the
Crusades,
> 1070-1365"
> Moderator: Paul Hyams, Cornell University
>
> 3:45-4:30
> Miriam Frenkel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> "The Medieval Jewish Community of Alexandria-Patterns of Immigration
and
> Assimilation"
> Moderator: Paul Hyams, Cornell University
>
> 8:00 p.m.
> Screening of Youssef Chahine's Alexandria, Why? (1979)
> Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Hall
>
> MONDAY, October 21
> 9:00-9:45
> William J. Slater, McMaster University
> "The Unexpected Advantages of Mummifying Literature"
> Moderator: Jeffrey Rusten, Cornell University
>
> 9:45-10:30
> Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University
> "Imagining the Library at Alexandria"
> Moderator: Jeffrey Rusten, Cornell University
>
> 10:30-10:45     Coffee Break
>
> 10:45-11:30
> Ellen Birnbaum, Harvard University
> "Citizen of the World, Representative of the Jews: Philo and
Alexandria in
the
> First Century C.E."
> Moderator: Jane-Marie Law, Cornell University
>
> 11:30-12:15
> Carrie Schroeder, Ithaca College
> "Alexandria in the Ascetic Imagination: Early Christian Perspectives
from
the
> Egyptian Desert"
> Moderator: Jane-Marie Law, Cornell University
>
> 12:15-1:15      Lunch Break
>
> 1:15-2:00
> Christine Bolus-Reichert, University of Toronto
> "The Alexandrians' Way: Eclecticism and the Via Media in Charles
Kingsley's
> Hypatia"
> Moderator: Brett de Bary, Cornell University
>
> 2:00-2:45
> Natalie Melas, Cornell University
> "Literary Citizenship Amidst the Ruins of Empire: Durrell's Alexandria

Quartet
> and the Lures of Ex-patriatism"
> Moderator: Brett de Bary, Cornell University
>
> 2:45-3:00       Coffee Break
>
> 3:00-3:45
> Deborah A. Starr, Cornell University
> "Yesterday Brims Over: Colonial Anxieties and Cosmopolitan Desires in
> Contemporary Egyptian Literature"
> Moderator: Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University
>
> 3:45-4:30
> Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
> "Alexandria Without Illusions"
> Moderator: Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University
>
> SPONSORED BY
> Department of Near Eastern Studies
> Program of Jewish Studies
> Classics Department
> John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
> College of Arts and Sciences
> Society for the Humanities
> Department of the History of Art
> Institute of European Studies
> Department of Government
> Department of Anthropology
> History Department
> Department of Comparative Literature
> Medieval Studies Program
> Department of Romance Studies
> Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
> Religious Studies Program
>
> For more information visit the web site:
> http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/alexandria.htm
> Or contact
> Deborah Starr <das86@cornell.edu>, (607) 254-6594
>
> *************************************************
> Deborah A. Starr
> Assistant Professor
> Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature
> Department of Near Eastern Studies
> Cornell University
> 360 Rockefeller Hall
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> (607) 254-6594
>